Saturday, May 14, 2016

Ancient Greek Tutorials @ AtticGreek.org

AtticGreek.org is the home of the revised Ancient Greek
Tutorials by Donald Mastronarde, adjusted to conform to the changes
made in the second edition of Introduction to Attic Greek
(University of California Press 2013) and to provide additional
supplements to that book. Many parts of this site will be helpful,
however, to anyone beginning or reviewing the study of ancient Greek
with any textbook.

This site should display Greek correctly if viewed with a modern browser
on a modern operating system, without further action by the user. If,
however, Greek words are cut off, or the Greek is displayed with a
combination of different fonts or with a combination of characters and
rectangles, then the user should install one of the free fonts
recommended below.

Extra reading passages from Lysias 1, glossed: these four passages
represent the continuation of the speech whose beginning was used as the
reading exercise in Units 36 and 37. The glossing assumes that student
has learned the vocabulary and syntax of the entire book. Words not
glossed can be looked up in the Greek-English Glossary of the book.

Extra reading passages from Plato, glossed: these passages offer a good deal of the third section of Plato's Apology (Defense of Socrates),
which represent what Socrates is supposed to have said after a majority
of the jury selected the more severe of the two penalties suggested,
death. The glossing assumes that student has learned the vocabulary and
syntax of the entire book. Words not glossed can be looked up in the
Greek-English Glossary of the book.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.